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Zusatztext Praise for the New York Times bestselling series “Juliet Blackwell sits firmly on my list of must-read authors...[Her] writing is like that of a master painter! placing a perfect splash of detail! drama! and whimsy in all the right places.”—Victoria Laurie! New York Times bestselling author “A winning combination of cozy mystery! architectural history! and DIY with a ghost story thrown in.”—The Mystery Reader “Cleverly plotted with a terrific sense of the history of the greater Bay Area! Blackwell’s series has plenty of ghosts and supernatural happenings to keep readers entertained and off-balance.”— Library Journal “This series is exceptional.”—Kings River Life Magazine “One of the most exciting! smart! and funny heroines currently in any book series.”—Fresh Fiction “Fans will want to see a lot more of the endearing Mel.”— Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Juliet Blackwell is the pseudonym for the New York Times bestselling author of the Haunted Home Renovation Mystery series, including Give Up the Ghost and Keeper of the Castle . She also writes the Witchcraft Mystery series, including A Toxic Trousseau and Spellcasting in Silk , and, together with her sister, wrote the Art Lover’s Mystery series as Hailey Lind. The first in the series, Feint of Art , was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel. She is also the author of the novels Letters from Paris and The Paris Key. As owner of her own faux-finish and design studio, the author has spent many days and nights on construction sites renovating beautiful historic homes throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Klappentext In the latest mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Give Up the Ghost, it will take a beacon of ghostly intervention to guide contractor Mel Turner to the truth... Dangerous tides ahead... When her friend Alicia hires Turner Construction to renovate a historic lighthouse in the San Francisco Bay, Mel Turner can't wait to get her hands dirty. Alicia plans to transform the island property into a welcoming inn, and while Mel has never attempted a project so ambitious-or so tall-before, she's definitely up for the challenge. But trouble soon arises when Alicia's abusive ex-husband shows up to threaten both her and Mel, and later turns up dead at the base of the lighthouse stairs. With no other suspects in sight, things start looking choppy for Alicia. Now, if Mel wants to clear her friend's name, she'll need the help of the lighthouse's resident ghosts to shine a light on the real culprit...Chapter One The tower reached high into a gray sky. A faint glow-dare I say a ghostly light?-seemed to emanate from the lighthouse's narrow windows. Probably just a trick of light, the afternoon sun reflecting off curved stone walls. Just looking up at the tower through the cracked bay window made me dizzy. "I'm thinking of calling the inn 'Spirit of the Lighthouse.' Or maybe 'the Bay Light,'" said Alicia Withers as she checked an item off the list on her clipboard. Alicia was big on lists. And clipboards. "What do you think, Mel? Too simple?" "I think you need to figure out your plumbing issues before you worry about the name," I replied. That's me, Mel Turner. General contractor and head of Turner Construction. Also known as Killjoy. Alicia and I stood in the central hallway of the former lighthouse keeper's home, a charming but dilapidated four-bedroom Victorian adjacent to the lighthouse tower. The structures had been built in 1871 on the small, rather unimaginatively named Lighthouse Island, located in the strait connecting the San Francisco and San Pablo bays. Not far away, the Richmond-...
